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A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain: Stories by Butler Robert Olen
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-03-10 | Author:Butler, Robert Olen [Butler, Robert Olen]

PREPARATION Though Thy’s dead body was naked under the sheet, I had not seen it since we were girls together and our families took us to the beaches at Nha ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
One of Cleopatra's Nights by Théophile Gautier
epub, mobi |eng | 1882-01-01 | Author:Théophile Gautier [Gautier, Théophile]

* Arria Marcella made a sign to Octavian to lie down upon the biclinium beside her and share her repast. Half-maddened with astonishment and love, the young man took at ...
( Category: Ghosts March 26,2014 )
The Horse-Stealers and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
epub |eng | | Author:Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

"This is a surprise! This is unexpected!" cackled Shapkin. "What can I offer you? Do you care for champagne? Perhaps you would like oysters? My dear fellow, I have had ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
The Duel and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
epub |eng | | Author:Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

* * * ***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE DUEL AND OTHER STORIES*** ******* This file should be named 13505-8.txt or 13505-8.zip ******* This and all associated files of ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
epub |eng | | Author:Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

* * * End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE COOK'S WEDDING AND ...
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The Chorus Girl and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
epub |eng | | Author:Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

She had nothing to do till the third act, and her part, that of a visitor, a provincial crony, consisted only in standing at the door as though listening, and ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
The Hungry Stones by Rabindranath Tagore
epub |eng | | Author:Rabindranath Tagore

* * * VISION I When I was a very young wife, I gave birth to a dead child, and came near to death myself. I recovered strength very slowly, ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories by Mark Twain
epub |eng | | Author:Mark Twain

* * * CONCERNING THE JEWS Some months ago I published a magazine article[1] descriptive of a remarkable scene in the Imperial Parliament in Vienna. Since then I have received ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
The Stolen White Elephant by Mark Twain
epub | | | Author:Mark Twain

* * * III Next morning the papers were as full of detective theories as before; they had all our tragic facts in detail also, and a great many more ...
( Category: Anthologies March 26,2014 )
Amy Foster by Joseph Conrad
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Joseph Conrad

* * * End of The Project Gutenberg Etext of Amy Foster, by Joseph Conrad * * * Amy Foster from http://manybooks.net/
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
A Set of Six by Joseph Conrad
epub |eng | | Author:Joseph Conrad

* * * A MILITARY TALE THE DUEL I NAPOLEON I., whose career had the quality of a duel against the whole of Europe, disliked duelling between the officers of ...
( Category: Sea Stories March 26,2014 )
In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash by Jean Shepherd
epub, mobi |eng | 1966-01-01 | Author:Jean Shepherd [Shepherd, Jean]

XVII I SHOW OFF Flick looked puzzled. “A Bloody Charlie? How the hell do you make a Bloody Charlie?” “You mean you don’t serve Bloody Charlies here?” Flick rummaged under ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-05-03 | Author:David Sedaris [Sedaris, David]

Christmas Means Giving For the first twelve years of our marriage Beth and I happily set the neighborhood standard for comfort and luxury. It was an established fact that we ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances by Alexander McCall Smith
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-03-24 | Author:Alexander McCall Smith

The Librarian realised that von Igelfeld was somehow put out by the way in which the button incident had been concluded, and decided that this would be the right time ...
( Category: Humorous March 26,2014 )
Portuguese Irregular Verbs by Smith Alexander McCall
epub |eng | 2003-12-17 | Author:Smith, Alexander McCall [Smith, Alexander Mccall]

HOLY MAN AUDEN HAD CALLED SUCH PLACES ‘weeds from Catholic Europe’, and this is how Professor Dr Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld thought of them too; as usual, Auden’s imagery struck him ...
( Category: Humorous March 26,2014 )

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